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SAT1(Barrons)巴朗3500基础词汇

Word List 2 adulation-amend

adulation N./奉承，恭维/flattery; admiration. The rock star thrived on the

adulation of his groupies and yes men. adulate,V.

adulterate V./掺杂/make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances. It is

a crime to adulterate foods without inform­ing the buyer; when consumers learned

that Beech-Nut had adulterated their apple juice by mixing it with water, they

protested vigorously.

advent N./到来，出现/arrival. Most Americans were unaware of the advent of the

Nuclear Age until the news of Hiroshima reached them.

adventitiousADJ./偶然/accidental; casual. He found this adven­titious meeting

with his friend extremely fortunate.

adversary N./对手/opponent. The young wrestler struggled to defeat his

adversary.

adverse ADJ./讨厌，敌意/unfavorable; hostile. The recession had a highly adverse

effect on Father's investment portfolio: he lost so much money that he could no

longer afford the but­ler and the upstairs maid. adversity, N.

adversity N./贫困，不幸/poverty; misfortune. We must learn to meet adversity

gracefully.

advocacy N./支持，辩护/support; active pleading on something's behalf. No threats

could dissuade Bishop Desmond Tutu from his advocacy of the human rights of

black South Africans.

advocate V./辩护/urge; plead for. The abolitionists advocated freedom for the

slaves. also N.

aerie N./猛禽的窝/nest of a large bird of prey (eagle, hawk). The mother eagle

swooped down on the unwitting rabbit and bore it off to her aerie high in the

Rocky Mountains.

aesthetic ADJ./审美的/artistic; dealing with or capable of apprecia­tion of the

beautiful. The beauty of Tiffany's stained glass appealed to Esther's aesthetic

sense. aesthete, N.

affable ADJ./平易近人的/easily approachable; warmly friendly. Accus­tomed to cold,

aloof supervisors, Nicholas was amazed at how affable his new employer was.

affected ADJ./假的，做作的/artificial; pretended; assumed in order to impress. His

affectedmannerisms-his "Harvard" accent, his air of boredom, his use of obscure

foreign words­bugged us: he acted as if he thought he was too good for his old

high school friends. affectation, N.

affidavit N./宣誓书/written statement made under oath. The court refused to

accept his statement unless he presented it in the form of an affidavit.

affiliation N./联合，加入/joining; associating with. His affiliation with the

political party was of short duration for he soon disagreed with his

colleagues.

affinity N./亲缘关系/kinship. She felt an affinity with all who suffered; their

pains were her pains.

affirmation N./正面肯定，确认/positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one

who refuses to take an oath. Despite Tom's affirmations of innocence, Aunt Polly

still suspected he had eaten the pie.

affix V./增加，附于/fasten; attach; add on. First the registrar had to affix her

signature to the license; then she had to affix her official seal.

affliction N./痛苦/state of distress; cause of suffering. Even in the midst of

her affliction,Elizabeth tried to keep up the spirits of those around her.

affluence N./富足，财富/abundance; wealth. Foreigners are amazed by the affluence

and luxury of the American way of life.

affront N./侮辱，冒犯;蓄意蔑视/insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect. When

Mrs. Proudie was not seated beside the Archdeacon at the head table, she took it

as a personalaffront and refused to speak to her hosts for a week. alsoV.

aftermath N./后果，结果/consequences; outcome; upshot. People around the world

wondered what the aftermath of China's violent suppression of the student

protests would be.

agenda N./议程/items of business at a meeting. We had so much difficulty

agreeing upon an agenda that there was very little time for the meeting.

agent N./方法，工具;代表/means or instrument; personal representative; per­son

acting in an official capacity. °I will be the agent of America's destruction,"

proclaimed the beady-eyed villain, whose agent had gotten him the role. With his

face, he could never have played the part of the hero, a heroic F.B.I.

agent.

agglomeration N./聚集，累积/collection; heap. It took weeks to assort the

agglomeration of miscellaneous items she had col­lected on her trip.

aggrandizeV./增加，加强/increase or intensify. The history of the past quarter

century illustrates how a President may aggrandize his power to act aggressively

in international affairs without considering the wishes of Congress.

aggregate V./收集，聚集/gather; accumulate. Before the Wall Street scandals,

dealers in so-called junk bonds managed to aggregate great wealth in short

periods of time. aggrega­tion, N.

aggressor N./攻击者/attacker. Before you punish both boys for fighting, see

whether you can determine which one was the aggressor.

aghast ADJ./吓坏了的/horrified. He was aghast at the nerve of the speaker who had

insulted his host.

agility N./敏捷/nimbleness. The agility of the acrobat amazed and thrilled the

audience.

agitate V./激怒，打扰/stir up; disturb. Her fiery remarks agitated the already

angry mob.

agnostic N./无神论者/one who is skeptical of the existence or knowability of a

god or any ultimate reality. Agnostics say we can neither prove nor disprove the

existence of god; we simply just can't know. alsoADJ.

agrarian ADJ./耕地的，耕种的/pertaining to land or its cultivation. The country is

gradually losing its agrarian occupation and turn­ing more and more to an

industrial point of view.

alacrity N./欢快的情绪/cheerful promptness. Phil and Dave were raring to get off

to the mountains; they packed up their ski gear and climbed into the van with

alacrity.

alchemy N./炼金术士/medieval chemistry. The changing of baser metals into gold

was the goal of the students of alchemy. alchemist, N.

alcove N./小隔间，壁橱/nook; small, recessed section of a room. Though their

apartment lacked a full-scale dining room, an alcove adjacent to the living room

made an adequate breakfast nook for the young couple.

alias N./别名/an assumed name. John Smith's alias was Bob Jones. also ADV.

alienate V./孤立，树敌/make hostile; separate. Her attempts to alien­ate the two

friends failed because they had complete faith in each other.

alimentary ADJ./营养的/supplying nourishment. The alimentary canal in our bodies

is so named because digestion of foods occurs there. When asked for the name of

the digestive tract, Sherlock Holmes replied, "Alimentary, my dear Watson."

alimony N./(离婚后的)生活费，抚养费/payment by a husband to his divorced wife (or vice

versa). Mrs. Jones was awarded $200 monthly alimony by the court when she was

divorced from her husband.

allay V./平静下来，(使)冷静下来/calm; pacify. The crew tried to allay the fears of the

passengers by announcing that the fire had been con­trolled.

allege V./断言/state without proof. Although it is alleged that she has worked

for the enemy, she denies the allegation and, legally, we can take no action

against her without proof. allegation, N.

allegiance N./忠诚/loyalty. Not even a term in prison could shake Lech Walesa's

allegiance to Solidarity, the Polish trade union he had helped to found.

allegory N./寓言/story in which characters are used as symbols; fable.

Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the temptations and victories of man's

soul. allegorical,ADJ.

alleviate V./解脱，释放，释然/relieve. This should alleviate the pain; if it does

not, we shall have to use stronger drugs.

alliteration N./头韵/repetition of beginning sound in poetry. "The furrow

followed free" is an example of alliteration.

allocate V./分配，制定/assign. Even though the Red Cross had allo­cated a large

sum for the relief of the sufferers of the disas­ter, many people perished.

alloy N./合金/a mixture as of metals. Alloys of gold are used more frequently

than the pure metal.

alloy V./混合，中和/mix; make less pure; lessen or moderate. Our delight at the

Yankees' victory was alloyed by our concern for Dwight Gooden, who injured his

pitching arm in the game.

allude V./暗指/refer indirectly. Try not to mention divorce in Jack's presence

because he will think you are alluding to his marital problems with Jill.

allure V./诱惑，引诱/entice; attract. Allured by the song of the sirens, the

helmsman steered the ship toward the reef. also N.

allusion N./暗指，暗示/indirect reference. When Amanda said to the ticket scalper,

"One hundred bucks? What do you want, a pound of flesh?," she was making an

allusion to Shake­speare's Merchant of Venice.

aloft ADV./向上/upward. The sailor climbed aloft into the rigging. To get into

a loft bed, you have to climb aloft.

aloof ADJ./分离，保留/apart; reserved. Shy by nature, she remained aloof while all

the rest conversed.

altercation N./大声争吵，激烈争论/noisy quarrel; heated dispute. In that hot­tempered

household, no meal ever came to a peaceful con­clusion; the inevitable

altercation might even end in blows.

altruistic ADJ./无私的，关心他人的/unselfishly generous; concerned for others. In

providing tutorial assistance and college scholarships for hundreds of

economically disadvantaged youths, Eugene Lang performed a truly altruistic

deed. altruism, N.

amalgamate V./结合，整合/combine; unite in one body. The unions will attempt to

amalgamate their groups into one national body.

amass V./收集/collect. The miser's aim is to amass and hoard as much gold as

possible.

ambidextrous ADJ./双手都灵巧/capable of using either hand with equal ease. A

switch-hitter in baseball should be naturally ambidextrous.

ambience N./环境/environment; atmosphere. She went to the restaurant not for

the food but for the ambience.

ambiguous ADJ./模棱两可/unclear or doubtful in meaning. His ambiguous

instructions misled us; we did not know which road to take. ambiguity, N.

ambivalenceN./矛盾的观点或情绪/the state of having contradictory or con­flicting

emotional attitudes. Torn between loving her parents one minute and hating them

the next, she was confused by the ambivalence of her feelings.

ambivalent,ADJ.

amble N./漫步，缓行/moving at an easy pace. When she first mounted the horse, she

was afraid to urge the animal to go faster than a gentle amble. alsoV.

ambulatory ADJ./可移动的，不固定/able to walk; not bedridden. Juan was a highly

ambulatory patient; not only did he refuse to be con­fined to bed, but he

insisted on riding his skateboard up and down the halls.

ameliorate V./提高/improve. Many social workers have attempted to ameliorate

the conditions of people living in the slums.

amenable ADJ./有服从义务的，随时服从的/readily managed; willing to be led. He wasamenable

to any suggestions that came from those he looked up to; he resented advice from

his inferiors.

amend V./修订，修改，变更/correct; change, generally for the better. Hoping to

amendhis condition, he left Vietnam for the United States.